Islamabad: Pakistan's ruling PPP and its key ally PML-N were today failed to resolve sharp differences on the crucial issue of reinstating judges deposed last year by President Pervez Musharraf but said that they would continue talks on it tomorrow.

Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari met former premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to discuss modalities for reinstating some 60 judges who were sacked during last year's emergency but they were unable to reach common ground.

PML-N spokesman Siddique-ul-Farooq said the meeting, which was also attended by senior leaders of the two parties, was inconclusive and the talks would resume tomorrow.

"The meeting discussed ways and means to implement in letter and spirit the Murree Declaration, which is aimed at restoring the judges within 30 days (of forming government)," Farooq said, referring to the power-sharing agreement signed by the PPP and PML-N last month.

"The meeting was inconclusive and the threads will be picked up at noon tomorrow," he told reporters. Farooq acknowledged that there were "lots of problems" associated with reinstating the judges.

"So those problems are being discussed, but let me tell you clearly that none of the parties can afford to budge an inch from the commitment made in the Murree Declaration," he said.

The countdown for restoring the pre-emergency judiciary had begun on April 1 and would conclude on April 30,he said.

Source : PTI